Sotheby's Turkish and Islamic week totals $26.34m

Sotheby's Turkish and Islamic Week: Classical to Contemporary closed with a realisation of $26.34m

The Turkish and Islamic week from Sotheby's has realised a total of 16.32m ($26.34m) in London.The Orientalist sale on April 24got proceedings well under way, with an artist record set for Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. His View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus sold for 3.23m against an estimate of 1.2m-1.8m, following energised telephone bidding.